Sales Engineer

I’m Ryan Russell-Yates, SE Manager of US West at Puppet,

I’m looking for a Sales Engineer (SE)  to join our team supporting our partner organization. Solutions Engineers at Puppet come from a variety of backgrounds, but must be comfortable with automation, process improvement, infrastructure management, or application development.  This role focuses on working with business partners to identify areas of improvement and ensuring existing and new customers receive the value and fully adopt Puppet’s portfolio of software.   

Successful people in this role come from various backgrounds which include Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineer, Software Development, Automation Software Consultants, as well as Professional Services Engineers.  The solutions engineering team at Puppet includes a cross-section of people with those backgrounds including teammates like DevOps engineer, Matt Stone, former Applications Consultant, Mike Smith, and Sr. Solutions Engineer, John Laffey.  

What’s a Sales Engineer?

• Build relationships with existing Puppet customers using technical advocacy as a vehicle to ensure the value of Puppet solutions
• Discover technical challenges and craft automation strategies that provide tangible value to the business
• Develop and educate potential Puppet accounts using consultative depth and skill to showcase automation
• Drive demand for expansion of new products through use case design and demonstrations 
• Create technical proposals that fulfill your customers business goals by leveraging automation value, building phased roadmap delivery, and aspirational vision leading to the technical closure of sales opportunities
• Work closely with peered Account Executives to align Puppet’s technical advantages to solve Customer’s Business Challenges
• Travel regionally in order to develop close account relationships and support sales activities
• Driven, independant, self motivated.  There is never only one way to craft solutions to problems.

Who do SE’s collaborate with on a daily basis?

• Sales Account Executives and Management developing business opportunities in conjunction with your technical guidance and direction
• Professional Service Engineers delivering engagements based upon collaborative solutions designed together
• Technical Account Managers aligned with you to guarantee the highest level of customer satisfaction 
• Peer SEs to share, collaborate, and build technical relationships leading to challenging opportunities that expand your knowledge and skills
• Product Management designing new solutions and pushing Puppet into new areas of the automation marketplace

What are the typical qualifications of an SE?

• You have 5 years or more of experience with using and positioning DevOps tools, workflows, automation solutions, integrating products
• You possess a comfort in front of audiences sharing your knowledge and presenting your solutions
• You sift through information to find root causes or commonalities of issues, to find places for improvement, and think outside the box
• You enjoy collaboration and social interaction with peers and other high achievers
• You demonstrate a consultative background participating and leading projects driving technological change using DevOps or Automation
• You maintain a passion to constantly learn and grow your technical and social skills
• You successfully completed a Computer Science or similar Degree

P.S. Don’t identify with this opportunity? Don’t worry about it - let us know if you think this is the place for you.

We are hiring at various experience levels and we’re particularly interested in having a diverse team with a broad set of skills and viewpoints. If this seems like your dream job, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway!

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About Puppet

Puppet’s core mission is to eliminate soul crushing work. We created the industry standard for managing infrastructure as code. And we didn’t stop there—our product portfolio has grown to help organizations automate across their entire software delivery lifecycle. With more than two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies using Puppet’s open source or commercial products, our code is helping power thousands of organizations across the world.

As the industry leader in DevOps solutions, we realize that our success is a collective effort; all made possible by the incredible people working here, our customers, partners, and Puppet community. Our culture is built on positivity, diversity, inclusivity and support—and we seek people who are resilient, entrepreneurial-minded, team players who continually strive to be incrementally better every single day. In our work together we aim to be curious, accountable, empathetic and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like the environment you’d thrive in, why not say hello?

Learn more about Puppet by checking out the values we live by and the awesome benefits and perks we offer employees!

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